"An essential part of the magic involves turning everyone into an enemy, to ward off surprises."

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Source : Alma Guillermoprieto (2011). “The Heart That Bleeds: Latin America Now”, p.105, Vintage

Alma Guillermoprieto

#Magic Quotes #Enemy Quotes #Essentials Quotes

“I often ask students: 'Is this what you would show Tom Ford?' and they say: 'No, we'd have done more work' or 'We'd have dressed better.' So I say: 'Why don't you do that here?'”
“Charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun.”
“I just would like to keep going. If I kept getting the kind of work that I've been getting for the last 20 years for the next 20, I'd be a bloody Dame of the British Empire. I'd be so happy.”
“You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate”
“I never eat standing up, I never eat in front of the refrigerator. I treat myself very formally with meals. I don't watch TV or read. It's a little bit of a ritual, and it's more enjoyable.”
“Melania Trump has not said what kind of visa she had, and her husband's campaign did not respond to NPR's inquiries before broadcast.”

Source : "Inconsistencies Call Melania Trump's Immigration Story Into Question". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. August 5, 2016.
“I do not believe that science per se is an adequate source of happiness, nor do I think that my own scientific outlook has contributed very greatly to my own happiness, which I attribute to defecating twice a day with unfailing regularity.”
“When we complain about the weather, we are, in reality, murmuring against God.”

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